Marianne Faithfull Quotes

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• Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

  Marianne Faithfull

  Uprising, Alive, Rebellion

  "Fictional character: Rebecca". "The Girl on a Motorcycle", www.imdb.com. September 12, 1968.

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• Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Song, Funny Relationship, Bad Relationship

  Marianne Faithfull (2000). “Faithfull: An Autobiography”, p.69, Cooper Square Press

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• I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Heaven, Earth, Facts

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• I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Drama, Aspects Of Life, Aspect

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• Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Regret, Stupid, Not Stupid

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• Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Apologizing, Wells, Havens

  Marianne Faithfull, David Dalton (2000). “Faithfull: An Autobiography”, p.5, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Voice, Franklin, Knows

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• I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Fame

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• If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Bad Times

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Song, Feelings, Way

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• The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important; we spend our lives doing things which are not important. That's what's nice about us, we're not pompous. We never do anything very bad that's gonna change the world. We're not serious, we're butterflies. We live for a day.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Nice, Butterfly, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Men, Behaviour, Institutions

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• Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Feminism, Best Things

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• I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones. It's very bad for me and very dangerous to see myself as someone who had an influence on this song or that song. It immediately puts me in the position where my worth is dependent on how much of my soul I shared with Mick Jagger, and it's just not valid. You can use the gossip you've heard. You're not getting it from me.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Song, Gossip, Soul

  "The Rolling Stones: a career in quotes" by Steve Turner, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2013.

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• I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Gone, Done, Want

  "Marianne Faithfull: 'I don't think I had any choice but to be decadent'". Interview With Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2013.

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• There is a land that I can go to
  When I have time to rest.
  All the people I love are there
  And those who love me best.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Travel, Land, People

  Song: Ireland, Album: A Child's Adventure

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• I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Thinking, America, Republic

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• I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Beautiful, Looks, Saws

  "Marianne Faithfull: rocking 60s style". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• I don't talk about my private life.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Private Life

  "Shining Knightley". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. July 17, 2006.

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• My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Artist, Luck, Trying

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• I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

  Marianne Faithfull

  People, Anorexia, Would Be

  "Marianne Faithfull: 'My father belonged to a commune, and the food was always ghastly'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Growing Up, Wake Up, Lessons

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• I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Music, Regret, Thinking

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• When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Way, Narcissism, Feedback

  "Reluctant pin-up: Marianne Faithfull reveals how she was damaged by her early brush with fame" by Rachel Shields, www.independent.co.uk. October 25, 2009.

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• Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Song, Years, Wonderful

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